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The thesis of mental fragmentation has recently attracted increased attention as a way of explaining facts about mind and language. This volume provides an accessible introduction and essays on foundations and applications of fragmentation.
List of contents
- The Fragmented Mind: An Introduction, Dirk Kindermann and Andrea Onofri
- I. Fragmentation: Foundational Issues and Motivation
- 1:Fragmentation and Information Access, Adam Elga and Agustín Rayo
- 2:Fragmentation and Coarse-Grained Content, Daniel Greco
- 3:The Fragmentation of Belief, Joseph Bendaña and Eric Mandelbaum
- 4:Fragmented Models of Belief, Andy Egan
- II. Rationality and Fragmentation
- 5:Rationality in Fragmented Belief Systems, Cristina Borgoni
- 6:Fragmented but Rational, Seth Yalcin
- III. Fragmentation and Language
- 7:Fragmentation and Singular Propositions, Robert Stalnaker
- 8:On the Availability of Presuppositions in Conversation, Dirk Kindermann
- IV. Fragmentation and Mental Files
- 9:Do Mental Files Obey Strawson's Constraint?, François Recanati
- 10:Belief Fragments and Mental Files, Michael Murez
- V. Fragmentation and Implicit Attitudes
- 11. Implicit Attitudes are (Probably) Beliefs, Joseph Bendana
- 12. Implicit Bias and the Fragmented Mind, Josefa Toribio
- 13. Rational Agency and the Struggle to Believe What Your Reasons Dictate, Brie Gertler
- 14. The Pragmatic Metaphysics of Belief, Eric Schwitzgebel
About the author
Cristina Borgoni is Professor of Epistemology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany
Dirk Kindermann is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Universität Wien, Austria
Andrea Onofri is Profesor de Tiempo Completo and Head of the Philosophy programme at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Summary
The thesis of mental fragmentation has recently attracted increased attention as a way of explaining facts about mind and language. This volume provides an accessible introduction and essays on foundations and applications of fragmentation.
